Somerset House

The Somerset House is a Neoclassical riverside palace located along the River Thames in The Strand district of London, England. It was built in 1776 on the site of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset's Tudor palace, and new Victorian wings to the east and west were added in 1831 and 1856, respectively. It stood directly on the river until the construction of the Victoria Embankment in the late 1860s.